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Targeting Al Jazeera: UK Media Gagged Over Contents of Bombing Memo
By Linda S. Heard

On Tuesday, Britain's Daily Mirror published an explosive story riddled with
implications concerning the character and intent of the US president when
pursuing his so-called 'war on terror', and perhaps, shedding light on the
bombing of Al Jazeera's offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. Twenty-four hours
later, the Mirror and all other British papers had been subjected to a "gag
order" under Section 5 the Official Secrets Act at pain of prosecution.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=533&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Red, White and Blue Dawn
What a Bad Hollywood Film Can Teach Americans About Life Under Occupation
By Stan Cox

Striking parallels between the current US occupation of Iraq and events
depicted in the movie The Battle of Algiers have been widely discussed. The
1965 classic, a dramatization of anticolonial struggle, was even shown at
the Pentagon back in 2003, apparently as an instructional film. But, as a
few commentators have noted, there is another movie from the past which, if
held up to an ideological mirror, provides insights on the Iraq catastrophe.
Red Dawn, released -- appropriately enough -- in 1984, was rotten cinema;
however, as an example of Cold War paranoia it was a masterpiece. Depicting
a near-future Soviet invasion of the United States, the film followed the
struggle of a group of young Coloradans against the forces of occupation.

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How Have the Mighty Fallen?
The Felling of the Goliath
By Ingmar Lee

It has become abundantly clear that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal is
doomed. It has dug itself into a spider-hole of treachery and deceit it will
never get out of. They have set the stage for their historical legacy
alongside the most despicable tyrants ever to disgrace the human species.
Similarly, if our species survives it, the stupendous American military will
be remembered not only as the most brutal organized terror force ever, but
also for being twice defeated by determined ragamuffin guerrillas using
homemade improvised weaponry.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/price11252005.html
How US Anthropologists Planned "Race-Specific" Weapons Against the Japanese
David Price, CounterPunch

During the Second World War, over two dozen anthropologists worked for the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the institutional predecessor to the
CIA, performing a variety of tasks ranging from covert-ops to desk-bound
propaganda analysis. For the first time, I can now describe one 1943 OSS
document, the "Preliminary Report on Japanese Anthropology," which
reveals that World War II-era anthropologists were recommending culture- and
race-specific means of killing Japanese soldiers and civilians. This report
sought to determine if there were "physical characteristics in which the
Japanese differ from others in such a way as to make these differences
significant from the point of view of carrying on the war". The person who
wrote this report remains remains classified, but a list of scholars
consulted by OSS includes anthropologists such as Clyde Kluckhohn, Fred
Hulse, Duncan Strong, Ernest Hooton, C. M. Davenport, Wesley Dupertuis, and
Morris Steggerda.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200511280013
Give up on mainstream media if you want to know the truth about Iraq
John Pilger, New Statesman

The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of
subjugated knowledge". The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make
sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the
conventional sources of news and information and to the world wide web,
convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power. The
great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several
senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the
lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying
and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.

http://www.rockymountainbullhorn.com/main.php?module=article-detail&articleId=341
Radical Media: David Barsamian strikes back at the American empire
James Thompson, Rocky Mountain Bullhorn

People talk about the decline of journalism? We should talk about the
collapse of journalism.

http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11514/index.php
Why Ted Koppel Shouldn't be Compared to Murrow
William Hughes, Baltimore IMC

For 25 years, the boring Ted Koppel was the anchor on ABC TV's "Nightline"
program. He toed the Establishment line! Now, David Zurawik, a media critic
for the Baltimore Sun, wants us to believe that Koppel is leaving behind "a
legacy of innovation and integrity." This is pure nonsense! Koppel, among
other faults, failed to challenge the serial lies of the Bush-Cheney Gang,
and the Neocons, too, that led us into the Iraqi War.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/scahill
Did Bush Really Want to Bomb Al Jazeera?
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation

To date, there has been no credible rejection of the Mirror's report from
the White House or 10 Downing Street. Instead, the British government has
activated its Official Secrets Act, threatening news organizations that
publish any portion of the five-page memo.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/160/160_freedom_rider_woodward.html
Bob Woodward and the Media Liars
Margaret Kimberley, Black Commentator

The Washington Post's Bob Woodward is the most recent example of a reporter
who has turned out to be nothing more than a Bush spokesman.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2630
Threatened New Orleans Tenants Fight Back Against Evictions Scourge
Jessica Azulay, New Standard

As landlords in the Crescent City area file eviction notices at a rate of
some 100 a day, community organizers and local renters are waging a
two-front battle to resist homelessness

http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/features/86_feat1.html
A ghettoised, post-colonial France is upon us
Naima Bouteldja, Seven Oaks Magazine

In 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs
of Lyon, French sociologist Alain Tourraine predicted that "it will only be
a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion of the
American experience". The 11 nights of consecutive violence following the
deaths of two young Muslim men of African descent in a Paris suburb indicate
that Tourraine's dark vision of a ghettoised, post-colonial France is now
upon us.

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NewsWire

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7691.shtml
Ain't no free speech allowed in Dubya's America

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511230012
Woodward's definition of "journalism"? Reporting Bush administration
falsehoods as "their point of view"

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11133.htm
Indictment Portrays Padilla as Minor Figure

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/24/opinion/edbrzezinski.php
Picking up where the Soviets left off

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dave_lin_051123_troop_cuts_after_12_2f.htm
Troop Cuts After 12/15? What A Line Of Bull! It's Stealth Escalation

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=791f502d98dc724f8e1ee38b666800fc
US military faces sharp decline in black recruits

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1343413
Dumster Diving Freegans: Anti-Consumers Dig Through Trash for Food

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2622
Unacceptable Mold Levels Found in New Orleans Air

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm
CO2 'highest for 650,000 years'

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article329180.ece
Sea levels rising twice as fast as 150 years ago, greenhouse gases blamed

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cad5d5d6-5c66-11da-af92-0000779e2340.html
UK:  Ministers draw up emergency gas shortage plans

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/article.print?id=6553
Americans Tuning Out the World--There are actually two communities in the
world today: Americans and everyone else

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/517d0e64-5d3a-11da-8cde-0000779e2340.html
Chinese toxic spill may threaten food chain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4463010.stm
Brazil police execute thousands

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article328995.ece
Violence against women at crisis level in Britain

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